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Wake Island (Marshallese: Ānen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets and a reef surrounding a lagoon.
Wake Island, atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and comprises three coral islets that rise from an underwater volcano to 21 feet above sea level.
Wake Island: The Alamo Of The Pacific. It's a story of survival on a desert island--and it helped change the course of WWII! Within hours of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, about 1,600 US...
Battle of Wake Island, (December 8–23, 1941), during World War II, battle for Wake Island, an atoll consisting of three coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) in the central Pacific Ocean. During the battle a small force of U.S. Marines and civilian defenders fought elements of the Imperial.
A dramatic depiction by Artist Correspondent Arthur Beaumont of a lone Marine F4F Wildcat fighter taking on three Japanese biplanes over Wake Island, done for the War Department’s 1942 film, Wake Island.
The valiant defense of Wake Island by US Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilians became a potent rallying point for Americans in the dark days after Pearl Harbor.
Dec 20, 2021 · Wake Island was probably visited by Micronesian and Polynesian settlers, and oral legends tell of periodic voyages to the islands by people from the Marshall Islands. Wake Island was uninhabited when Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana de NEYRA became the first European to see it in 1568 and still had no humans when English captain Samuel WAKE ...
The battle was for a small island in Central Pacific with the Marines and civilians of the island defending against invaders from Japan. It was a site for a submarine and air base for the U.S. that was partially completed.
The day after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces assaulted the small American-held atoll of Wake Island, 2,300 miles west of Hawaii. The defenders numbered fewer than 1,800 Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian contractors.
Oct 15, 2019 · Amid mounting tensions in the Pacific, the U.S. government is investing a lot of money on infrastructure at an isolated atoll, Wake Island, best known as the site of a heroic World War II battle.
